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  Phil Spector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spector used songs from songwriters employed at The Brill Building, such as the teams of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Spector often receiving co-credit for compositions.
Despite the trend towards multi-channel recording, Spector was also vehemently opposed to stereo releases, claiming that it took control of the record's sound away from the producer in favor of the listener.
Spector allegedly said, "I didn't mean to shoot her." His lawyer argued that comments attributed to the music producer should be thrown out because he was suffering from prescription-drug withdrawal symptoms at the time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phil_Spector   (2581 words)

  
 Phil Spector murder trial - CourtTV.com - Trials
Spector, 66, is facing trial for allegedly shooting actress and nightclub hostess Lana Clarkson at his Alhambra mansion in the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 2003.
Spector dropped large tips, $100 or more each, to waiters, bartenders, maître d's and other service-industry friends who comped his drinks, which he claims not to have touched, and cleared his table of salads and other dishes he says he routinely orders, but does not eat.
Spector, who dropped his civil suit against Shapiro in December, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if he is convicted of Clarkson's murder.
www.courttv.com /trials/spector/013006_ctv.html   (856 words)

  
 Prosecutors get hands on Phil Spector's deposition - Boston.com
Spector is accused of shooting 40-year-old actress Lana Clarkson to death in the foyer of his Los Angeles-area mock castle in the early morning hours of February 3, 2003.
Spector's attorneys also said that lawyers in the civil case had pledged to keep the deposition transcript sealed, but Fidler said they did not have the authority to keep it from prosecutors.
Spector's lawyers are expected to argue that Clarkson committed suicide, echoing claims the producer made to police shortly after they arrived on the scene.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/01/26/prosecutors_get_hands_on_phil_spectors_deposition?mode=PF   (430 words)

  
 Phil Spector Murder Case
Spector, 65, is charged with the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson, whose body police found in the foyer of Spector's Alhambra mansion with a single gunshot wound to her head.
Spector's lawyers have argued the statements he made after Lana Clarkson died should be thrown out because he was suffering withdrawal symptoms from seven prescription drugs when he talked to police.
Spector, famed for creating rock 'n' roll's "wall of sound" recording technique in the 1960s, is charged in the fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion in February 2003.
www.tabloidcolumn.com /phil-spector.html   (2557 words)

  
 Phil Spector
Harvey Philip Spector was born December 26, 1940 in the Bronx, New York.
Spector was drawn to the local rhythm and blues scene.
Spector and the Teddy Bears signed with Imperial Records and their first single "I Don't Need You Anymore" was released in mid-January.
www.history-of-rock.com /spector.htm   (1395 words)

  
 Spector Gunplay Testimony Allowed - May 23, 2005 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Spector is on trial for the February 2003 shooting death of B-movie star Lana Clarkson.
Spector's team, of course, was aiming to have all of the prosecution's would-be witnesses removed from testifying.
Melvin said Spector accused her of being a snoop and a thief when they were dating in 1989 or 1990 and chased her out of his house while holding a shotgun.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,16613,00.html?rssmusic   (475 words)

  
 Cornell University - Academics - Faculty Highlights: Buzz Spector
Spector has a particular interest in text as art, showing words with materials, including yarn, embossed paper and, in one installation, painted ceramic tiles in a train station.
Spector came to Cornell four years ago from the University of Illinois; he also taught at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Spector has recently exhibited in Chicago and in Portland, Ore., and will have work on display at Ithaca's State of the Art Gallery in January.
www.cornell.edu /academics/faculty/bspector.cfm   (519 words)

  
 Phil Spector
Spector became involved in music and with his band, the Teddy Bears, he wrote and recorded a hit song.
In the early 1960s, Spector began working in music studios and by 1961 was producing recordings for established artists such as Gene Pitney and for girl groups such as the Ronettes and the Crystals.
Spector produced a number of hits in the 1960s and was hired to produce the Beatles Let It Be album in 1969.
www.harrynilsson.com /about-phil-spector.html   (365 words)

  
 Spector Lab
Jiménez-García, L.F. and Spector, D.L. In vivo evidence that transcription and splicing are coordinated by a recruiting mechanism.
Spector, D.L. Genes and transcripts in the interphase nucleus.
Fang, Y. and Spector, D.L. The organization and dynamics of SR splicing factors in Arabidopsis thaliana.
spectorlab.cshl.edu /papers.html   (1157 words)

  
 Motion Centers on Spector Gunplay - Mar 14, 2005 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Spector, 65, is set to face the music Sept. 16 for the shooting death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson, who was killed Feb. 3, 2003 at his estate near Los Angeles.
Spector was rung up on a misdemeanor charge of brandishing a firearm for his efforts.
Spector has publicly stated that he had nothing to do with the death of the 40-year-old Clarkson; he claims the Barbarian Queen star "kissed the gun" in front of him inside his suburban Los Angeles mansion.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,16121,00.html?rssmusic   (548 words)

  
 Warren Spector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warren Spector is a respected game designer, having worked to merge elements of RPGs and first-person shooters.
In 2005, it was announced that he had established a new studio Junction Point Studios, where he is working on an unspecified game to be built with Valve's Source engine and released through Valve's Steam digital distribution system.
Spector is usually credited as a producer, except for Deus Ex on which he is also credited as project director.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warren_Spector   (524 words)

  
 Phil Spector's murder trial delayed - Boston.com
The much-delayed murder trial of music producer Phil Spector was postponed again Tuesday, with a judge pushing the case back to January.
The much-delayed murder trial of music producer Phil Spector was postponed again Tuesday April 25, 2006, with a judge pushing the case back to January.
Spector's trial in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson had been set for September.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/04/25/phil_spectors_murder_trial_delayed   (340 words)

  
 Spector
Spector was a massive airship like none other that the Koopas had ever seen before.
Spector was no more, and that night Princess Toadstool held a great party at her castle.
Although Spector was gone, Ludwig knew in his heart that Corrupt was still alive, and that thought worried him for he knew Corrupt would strike even harder next time.
www.lemmykoopa.com /lk2/lk2-241.html   (1070 words)

  
 WJLA - Judge Allows Spector Statements in Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
All of the statements Phil Spector made the night an actress was shot to death in his home may be used by prosecutors at his trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
Spector's version of events may be introduced by the defense only if he testifies.
Spector's attorney, Bruce Cutler, noted that by the time the policewoman said she overheard Spector's statement, he had been subdued by police using a stun gun.
www.wjla.com /headlines/1005/272587.html   (474 words)

  
 IEEEVM: Phil Spector
Young Spector did not find the subjects at his new high school very interesting and instead concentrated on learning to play musical instruments such as the guitar, piano, drums, bass, and French horn.
During the 1960s Spector worked as a producer for such artists as Ike and Tina Turner, Darlene Love, the Righteous Brothers, Bob B Soxx and the Bluejeans, the Ronnettes, and the Crystals.
Spector himself called his technique “a Wagnerian approach to rock & roll: little symphonies for the kids.” It is said that the wall of sound changed the course of pop-record producing, because it was used on many top hits and was widely imitated.
www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /collection/people.php?taid=&id=1234716&lid=1   (608 words)

  
 CNN.com - Record producer Spector arrested in woman's slaying - Jan. 23, 2004
Legendary record producer Phil Spector was released on bail after his arrest in connection with the death of a woman at his suburban Los Angeles home.
Phil Spector, the record producer whose "Wall of Sound" backed up rock groups from the Ronettes to the Ramones, was arrested Monday in the early morning shooting death of a woman inside his sprawling suburban mansion.
Spector's trademark was the "Wall of Sound," the layering of instrumental tracks and percussion which underpinned a string of hits on his Phillies label in the early 1960s.
www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/03/spector.arrest   (706 words)

  
 Email Tracking - Spector CNE Email Tracker
Spector CNE will stamp out abuse and keep you within legal ramification with cutting-edge email tracking capabilities designed to ensure that you have a clear record of all email being sent and received from company premises.
Spector CNE not only captures standard alphanumeric keystrokes, but also records "hidden" characters and keystroke combinations, such as the Shift and Ctrl key, as well as “true” keystrokes which may otherwise appear differently on screen (such as an * when a password is typed).
Spector CNE will track the day and time a program is launched and the total duration of activity in that program.
www.spector.com /email-tracking.html   (1800 words)

  
 IBM Research | Alfred Spector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Previously, Dr. Spector was the general manager of Marketing and Strategy for IBM's AIM business, responsible for a number of IBM software product families including CICS, WebSphere, and MQSeries, and also the general manager of IBM's Transaction Systems business.
Spector was also founder and CEO of Transarc Corporation, a pioneer in distributed transaction processing and wide area file systems, and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Spector is on the board of the Security Industry Middleware Council, the NSF CISE Advisory Board, and the Computer Research Association, and also an advisor to the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
domino.research.ibm.com /comm/research_people.nsf/pages/aspector.index.html   (212 words)

  
 CNN.com - Spector's lawyer denies having victim's fingernail - Feb. 18, 2004
Spector, 63, is accused of fatally shooting Clarkson and remains free on $1 million bail.
Spector's attorneys are considering a motion to disqualify the Los Angeles District Attorney's office if they can prove that prosecutors knew that the detective in question, Stan White, was spying for the sheriff's department.
Spector, a Grammy award winner and producer of The Beatles' "Let it Be" album created the so-called "wall of sound" recording style and helped to bring international fame to such groups as the Ronettes, the Crystals, and the Righteous Brothers.
cnn.com /2004/LAW/02/18/spector/index.html   (604 words)

  
 SpectorSoft.com - Spector for Macintosh
Spector works by taking a snapshot of whatever is on the computer screen and saves it away in a hidden location on your computer's hard drive.
Spector is appropriate for parents concerned about what their children do online, or worried about protecting their children from the dangers of the Internet.
Spector is also ideal for businesses concerned about how their employees use company computers.
www.spectorsoft.com /products/Spector_Macintosh/index.html   (456 words)

  
 RedOrbit - General - Prosecutors Want to Use Spector's Comment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors in the Phil Spector murder case asked a judge to allow statements the music producer made to police shortly after an actress was shot to death at his home in 2003 to be used at his trial.
Spector denies he shot anyone at his house and denies he said he shot anyone," Cutler said.
Spector, known for creating rock music's "wall of sound," has pleaded not guilty and is free on $1 million bail.
www.redorbit.com /news/general/280795/prosecutors_want_to_use_spectors_comment/index.html?source=r_general   (317 words)

  
 ESPNsoccernet - Americans Abroad - Winner: On Jonathan Spector
Spector, who signed with Manchester United in the summer of 2003, exudes a quiet confidence of someone ten years his senior.
However, Spector competed solidly in his first appearance in front of the home fans, who may not have much longer to enjoy their new star.
Spector's German passport allowed him to skirt the rules that deny work permits to people under the age of 18.
soccernet.espn.go.com /columns/story?id=343072&root=americansabroad&cc=5901   (914 words)

  
 SPECTOR
SPECTOR was born in a South Philadelphia storefront in 1999, the lovechild of the artist Shelley Spector.
Today, SPECTOR’s picture-window on the world remains at Fifth and Bainbridge, and the world is gazing back—the gallery’s artists have shown in museums and galleries from Tokyo to Milan and Paris, and their works have entered the permanent collections of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and MOMA in New York.
SPECTOR and its artists—an evolving cast that includes stalwarts such as Jim Houser, Whitney Lee, Ben Woodward, Randall Sellers, and CW Wells—affectionately ignore the boundaries between popular culture and fine art, between insider and outsider.
www.spectorspector.com   (175 words)

  
 Phil Spector Murder Trial - Full Trial Coverage on Courttv.com
Spector was charged with one count of murder for the death of Lana Clarkson.
This transcript reflects the statement given by Spector to police at the mogul's house the night of the shooting.
A recently unsealed deposition transcript reveals that once-powerful music man Phil Spector, now facing trial for the murder actress Lana Clarkson, has struggled with crippling depression for years, is under the regular care of a psychiatrist, and still disavows any responsibility for an alleged history of trouble when it comes to guns and women.
www.courttv.com /trials/spector/index.html   (240 words)

  
 Dr. Arthur Spector
Spector, A.A. (2006) HIV protease inhibitors and hyperlipidemia: A fatty acid connection.
S.D., Kaduce, T.L., Spector, A.A. (2002) Comparison of 20-, and 24-carbon n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid utilization in differentiated rat brain astrocytes.
Spector, A.A. (2001) Plasma free fatty acid and lipoproteins as sources of polyunsaturated fatty acid for the brain.
www.biochem.uiowa.edu /faculty/spector   (1294 words)

  
 Spector :: Spector Removal Instructions
Spector Pro contains seven integrated tools that record your chatroom conversations, your instant messages, your emails sent and received, web sites visited, your keystrokes typed, programs launched, and peer-to-peer file searching and swapping.
Spector Pro also provides the equivalent of a digital surveillance tape so that the exact sequence of everything you do on the computer may be viewed.
Your best defense to remove Spector, or any other spyware, is to quickly detect and delete Spector processes, registry keys, DLL files, and other hazardous Spector files from your computer.
www.spywareremove.com /removeSpector.html   (198 words)

  
 Phil Spector - The Producer
Spector decided that he liked the production more than the performing part of the business.
Spector than approached independent record producers Lester Sill and Lee Hazlewood and persuaded them to teach him the business.
Spector was a millionaire at the age of twenty-one.
www.history-of-rock.com /spector_producer.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Newsvine - Murder Trial of Phil Spector Is Delayed
Music producer Phil Spector is shown in Superior Court in a file photo from May 23, 2005, in Los Angeles.
The trial had been set for April 24, but one of Spector's attorneys is involved in a federal trial in New York that is expected to go beyond that date, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.
Spector appeared in court on Wednesday in a dark blue coat.
www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/03/22/143066-murder-trial-of-phil-spector-is-delayed   (695 words)

  
 ESPNsoccernet: Jonathan Spector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Spector joined Manchester United in the summer of 2003 from American outfit Chicago Sockers.
There was a delay in Spector being able to play for United due to confusion over a FIFA ruling, which stated players under the age of 18 could only sign for clubs within their home countries.
Spector looks an excellent prospect, and he found himself on the bench for the United first team at Blackburn towards the end of his debut campaign.
soccernet.espn.go.com /player?id=40267&cc=5739   (418 words)

  
 Spector and eBlaster Spy Software - Internet Monitoring Software
Now, at the touch of a button, Spector CNE can be remotely configured and installed FROM any computer on the network TO any computer on the network, and the recordings can be viewed from any PC on the network.
Spector CNE automatically captures and lets you review your employees’: emails sent and received, chat conversations and instant messages, files downloaded, web sites visited, applications launched and keystrokes typed.
Spector is 100 percent compatible with all versions of AOL and AOL Instant Messenger.
www.spectorsoft.com   (803 words)

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